Privacy & Digital Freedom News — 2026-09-28

The daily reading list for people who care about digital privacy — curated headlines with links to the original reporting. Why we track this: every new SIM-registration law, data-broker leak, and surveillance expansion is a reason anonymous connectivity exists.

EFF Deeplinks

• EFF to Court: Trump's Use of Truth Social's Pay-To-See-Posts-First Scheme Violates Americans' 1st Amendment Equal Access Rights — <div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden"><div class="field__items"><div class="field__item even"><p><em>EFF legal intern Simar Kaur also contributed to this article.</em></p> …
• DraftKings Is Using AI to Supercharge the Harms of Online Behavioral Advertising — <div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden"><div class="field__items"><div class="field__item even"><p><span data-contrast="auto">Online sports betting company DraftKings </span>…
• D.C. Circuit Must Vacate a Drone Flight Restriction That Criminalized Recording Immigration Agents — <div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden"><div class="field__items"><div class="field__item even"><p><span data-contrast="auto">EFF joined an </span><a href=" data-contrast="no…
• EU Kids Act Won't Keep the Internet Accountable and Trustworthy — <div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden"><div class="field__items"><div class="field__item even"><p><span data-contrast="none">The EU Commission draft law to restrict young pe…

Hacker News (privacy)

• Why is privacy so hard? (2019)
• GPT-6 Astra in code review: Gains, privacy, and cost
• An open DNS recursive service for free security and high privacy
• The privacy problems hidden in your period tracker

Hacker News (eSIM)

• Plaud's new earphones come with an eSIM-enabled case for talking to AI agents
• eSIM was supposed to replace SIM cards, but carriers turned it into a trap
• Cheapest way to keep a UK mobile number using an eSIM
• Implementing automatic eSIM installation on Android

Schneier on Security

• New Attack Against RSA — ArsTechnica is reporting on a &#8220;new&#8221; attack against RSA, one that bypasses factoring. First, this attack isn&#8217;t new. The original research is from 2007 . What is new is the implementation. Second, it is a…
• Friday Squid Blogging: Participatory Squid Dissection in October in Tennessee — I feel like someone who reads this blog will want to go to this : Families are invited to dive into the fascinating world of marine biology during an exciting, hands-on Family Squid Dissection at the Hands-On Science Cen…
• On Anthropic’s AI Misuse Report — Earlier this month, Anthropic published a long report detailing all of the Claude misuses it detected. Daniel Meissler usefully summarized the report into 117 findings. A few of the highlights: AI agents increasingly han…
• Malicious npm Packages That Evade Defenses — This is an impressive piece of malware . Its sophistication says nation-state to me, but there is no direct evidence and certainly no attribution.…

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